Example sentences of "['s] [noun] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Leapor 's response to the discomforts of agricultural labourers must be approached at different levels .
2 This may have been Swegen 's response to the attempts by Æthelred to get Norman help reported by Henry of Huntingdon under 1009 .
3 The findings were based on interviews with 501 people — a representative sample of Lothian 's population — and featured in the Regional Council 's response to the plans for reform .
4 BRAC 'S RESPONSE TO THE FINDINGS OF THE STUDIES
5 Mr Sim was chairman of the North East Water Board from 1970-75 and played a crucial role in the authority 's response to the needs of the developing North Sea oil industry .
6 Mr Sim was chairman of the North east Water Board from 1970-75 and played a crucial role in the authority 's response to the needs of the developing North Sea oil industry .
7 The Quaker mine-owners could hardly avoid the site 's exposure to the ravages of moorland weather , but they provided for the welfare of their employees , with sick pay and adult education schemes that became models for other employers .
8 Yet these lines contain an anger which is encountered again and again in her work , that from the constraints of a girl 's upbringing to the tyrannies of marriage , there is small hope of a woman achieving the life she wants .
9 Nineteenth-century concordats had improved the legal position of Roman Catholicism in many countries and often left the clergy considerable powers over such matters as education , yet Papal Infallibility , the Syllabus of Errors and the Church 's resistance to the conclusions of biblical criticism alienated intellectuals .
10 A weekend away from the office can lower the body 's resistance to the organisms in air-conditioning systems .
11 What ‘ happens ’ is linked in the protagonist 's mind to the networks of her imagination .
12 Above all he brought an accountant 's mind to the affairs of the Transport Department , with startling results .
13 THE BILL 'S concessions to the concerns of barristers and judges about extended rights of audience in the higher courts were welcomed yesterday by Mr Desmond FennellQC , chairman of the Bar .
14 Exemptions marked the generosity of the monarch , as with Theudebert 's concessions to the churches of the Auvergne .
15 At present , it 's still safe to lift one 's eyes to the hills in that quarter .
16 Her last film ‘ RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN ’ ( 1964 ) whose commercial and critical failure ended her career , can be seen as a woman 's reply to the eulogies of the working class male celebrated by John Osbourne and his like , and it does so by poking fun at the ideology of the male and his crude sexism .
17 Another occasion which demonstrated Winston 's indifference to the dictates of authority or public opinion was when I was approached by a picaresque character called John Shaheen , an American oil magnate who spent his life getting in and out of the most complicated financial transactions , seemingly always on the verge of ruin but nevertheless contriving to remain sufficiently solvent to undertake his next massive adventure .
18 SIR — The reports that Mr Patten , having failed to hold on to his seat in Parliament , might be wheeled out as Governor of Hong Kong ( April 16 ) are symptomatic of the Government 's indifference to the wishes of the people who actually live there .
19 But Henry 's indifference to the realities of the Scottish situation came out most clearly in this third , amazing , offer : if resistance to the marriage was successful , he would respond by making Arran king of Scotland north of the Forth by force .
20 The situation illustrates Anselm 's indifference to the compromises of practical affairs .
21 SOME SAY Martin Scorsese 's return to the streets of Downtown New York makes heroes of the very villains it hopes to demystify , but GoodFellas ' opening scenario leaves us in no doubt .
22 SOME SAY Martin Scorsese 's return to the streets of Downtown New York makes heroes of the very villains it hopes to demystify , but GoodFellas ' opening scenario leaves us in no doubt .
23 Harry 's return to the sources at wishwood seems very much a return to the Frazenan wood , when
24 Heseltine 's attitude to the likes of break-up artist Lord Hanson is not known .
25 The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years .
26 Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant .
27 We will send £5 worth of Sainsbury 's vouchers to the authors of all published letters .
28 Again , the answer seems to lie in the way that the reformulation draws the hearer 's attention to the differences between just being gone and having vanished .
29 But it 's important too to draw the child 's attention to the patterns of spelling , and to show him how to analyse words .
30 Pomeshchiks on small and medium-sized estates resented the privileges enjoyed by monasteries and looked hungrily at their lands , while the swelling needs of the Treasury drew the Tsar 's attention to the resources of the Church .
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